13 Notable alumni of
Southern Cross University
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Southern Cross University is 2981st in the world, 46th in Oceania, and 36th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Southern Cross University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Linda Reynolds
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Linda Karen Reynolds CSC is an Australian politician. She served as a Senator for Western Australia from 2014 to 2025, representing the Liberal Party, and held senior ministerial office as a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022.
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Mickalene Thomas
- Occupations
- paintercollagistphotographertelevision producer
- Biography
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Mickalene Thomas is an African-American contemporary visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas's collage work is inspired from popular art histories and movements, including Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, the Harlem Renaissance, and selected works by the Afro-British painter Chris Ofili. Her work draws from Western art history, pop art, and visual culture to examine ideas around femininity, beauty, race, sexuality, and gender.
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Ashok Lavasa
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Ashok Lavasa is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Haryana cadre and was one of the two Election Commissioners of India. He has also served as the Finance Secretary of India, Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary of India and Civil Aviation Secretary of India. He served as the vice president of Asian Development Bank (ADB) from August 2020 to August 2023.
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Justin Harrison
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Justin Harrison is an Australian rugby union commentator and former international rugby union player, who played lock forward and is currently the head of the Australian Rugby Union Players Association (RUPA).
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Steve Price
- Occupations
- rugby league player
- Biography
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Steven John Price MNZM is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s primarily as a prop. An Australian international representative, he retired as Queensland's most capped State of Origin forward. Price captained Sydney club, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs as well as New Zealand NRL club, the Warriors.
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Poto Williams
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Munokoa Poto Williams MP is a New Zealand Labour Party politician and former member of Parliament. She was elected in a 2013 by-election and served as Minister of Conservation and Minister for Disability Issues in the Sixth Labour Government.
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Daniel McDaniel
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Major General Daniel Francis McDaniel, DSC, AM, DSM is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He served as the acting Special Operations Commander Australia from September 2013 to December 2014, after Major General Gus Gilmore was reassigned. He was seconded to the United States Army Pacific as Deputy Commanding General – North from January 2019 to January 2022.
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Tamara Smith
- Enrolled in Southern Cross University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- teachersolicitorpolitician
- Biography
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Tamara Francine Smith is an Australian politician, representing Ballina in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Greens since 2015.
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Caroline Le Couteur
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Enrolled in Southern Cross University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Business
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caroline Le Couteur is an Australian politician who has served as Vice President of Woden Valley Community Council since 2025 and previously served as a ACT Greens member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly intermittently between 2008 and 2020.
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Jodi Martin
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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Jodi Miranda Martin is an Australian singer-songwriter. Her professional music career began in mid-1996 while she was still a student, when she was the opening act for Arlo Guthrie's first Australian tour. Brisbane Times called her "one of Australia's most up and coming singer songwriters." She has been influenced by Joni Mitchell and compared to Tracy Chapman and Suzanne Vega.
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David Heilpern
- Occupations
- civil servantlawyer
- Biography
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David Heilpern is an Australian lawyer and author. After attending school in Sydney, and university in Sydney, Canberra and Lismore, New South Wales, Heilpern became a solicitor and barrister. He is the author of For Fear of Favour: Sexual Assault of Young Prisoners, a prominent study of sexual assault in prisons, and has been an advocate of prison and law reform. In 1998 he became one of the youngest Magistrates in New South Wales. In 2004 he was awarded Southern Cross University's Alumnus of the Decade Award.
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Jone Usamate
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jone Usamate is a Fijian politician, who served as the Minister for Infrastructure and Meteorological Services from 2014 to 2022 and Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources from 2020 to 2022 in the Fijian government.
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Ben Newton
- Occupations
- wheelchair rugby player
- Biography
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Ben Newton, OAM is a wheelchair rugby player and coach. He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics where he was a member of the Steelers that won the gold medal..
